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Overview

Ben J. Harrison is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and conducts research primarily within the fields of neuroscience, psychology, and medicine.

The scientist's main areas of study include:

  • Neuroscience (140 publications)
  • Psychology (90 publications)
  • Medicine (71 publications)

Within these disciplines, the subfields of focus cover:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience (118 publications)
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (56 publications)
  • Clinical Psychology (26 publications)
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health (19 publications)
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging (18 publications)

The main research topics addressed in their work include:

  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (136 publications)
  • Mental Health Research Topics (66 publications)
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (42 publications)
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (38 publications)
  • Neural Dynamics and Brain Function (22 publications)
  • Treatment of Major Depression (20 publications)
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms (20 publications)

Ben J. Harrison has frequently published in several venues, with the most common being:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) - 19 publications
  • Molecular Psychiatry - 10 publications
  • Biological Psychiatry - 9 publications
  • Human Brain Mapping - 7 publications
  • Translational Psychiatry - 6 publications

The scientist has collaborated often with several coauthors, including:

  • Christopher G. Davey (81 joint publications)
  • Alec J. Jamieson (37 joint publications)
  • Ian H. Gotlib (26 joint publications)
  • Trevor Steward (25 joint publications)
  • Neda Jahanshad (24 joint publications)

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Ben J. Harrison include:

  • Brain aging in major depressive disorder: results from the ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group (2020, Molecular Psychiatry)
  • Cortical thickness across the lifespan: Data from 17,075 healthy individuals aged 3-90 years (2021, Human Brain Mapping)
  • ENIGMA MDD: seven years of global neuroimaging studies of major depression through worldwide data sharing (2020, Translational Psychiatry)
  • Regional, circuit and network heterogeneity of brain abnormalities in psychiatric disorders (2023, Nature Neuroscience)
  • Does the human ventromedial prefrontal cortex support fear learning, fear extinction or both? A commentary on subregional contributions (2021, Molecular Psychiatry)

Best Publications

  • Cortical abnormalities in adults and adolescents with major depression based on brain scans from 20 cohorts worldwide in the ENIGMA Major Depressive Disorder Working Group.

    L Schmaal;D P Hibar;P G Sämann;G B Hall

  • Neural signatures of human fear conditioning: an updated and extended meta-analysis of fMRI studies.

    M. A Fullana;B. J Harrison;C Soriano-Mas;C Soriano-Mas;Bram Vervliet

  • Altered Corticostriatal Functional Connectivity in Obsessive-compulsive Disorder

    B J Harrison;Carles Soriano-Mas;Jesus M Pujol;Hector Ortiz

  • Cognitive impairment in euthymic major depressive disorder: a meta-analysis

    Emre Bora;Ben J Harrison;Murat Yucel;Christos Pantelis

  • Competitive and cooperative dynamics of large-scale brain functional networks supporting recollection

    Alex Fornito;Ben J. Harrison;Andrew Zalesky;Jon S. Simons

  • Mapping the self in the brain's default mode network

    Christopher G Davey;Jesus Pujol;Ben J Harrison

  • Consistency and functional specialization in the default mode brain network

    Ben J. Harrison;Jesus Pujol;Marina López-Solà;Rosa Hernández-Ribas

  • Brain aging in major depressive disorder: results from the ENIGMA major depressive disorder working group

    Laura K.M. Han;Richard Dinga;Richard Dinga;Tim Hahn;Christopher R.K. Ching

  • Functional brain imaging studies of youth depression: A systematic review

    Rebecca Kerestes;Christopher G. Davey;Katerina Stephanou;Sarah Whittle

  • Meta-analysis of volumetric abnormalities in cortico-striatal-pallidal-thalamic circuits in major depressive disorder

    Emre Bora;Ben J Harrison;Christopher G Davey;Murat Yucel

  • Fear extinction in the human brain: A meta-analysis of fMRI studies in healthy participants.

    Miquel A. Fullana;Anton Albajes-Eizagirre;Carles Soriano-Mas;Bram Vervliet

  • Functional and Biochemical Alterations of the Medial Frontal Cortex in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

    Murat Yücel;Ben J. Harrison;Stephen J. Wood;Alex Fornito

  • Functional Dysconnectivity of Corticostriatal Circuitry as a Risk Phenotype for Psychosis

    Alex Fornito;Ben J. Harrison;Emmeline Goodby;Anna M Dean

  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder, impulse control disorders and drug addiction: common features and potential treatments.

    Leonardo F Fontenelle;Sanne Oostermeijer;Ben J Harrison;Christos Pantelis

  • Towards a neurophysiological signature for fibromyalgia

    Marina López-Solà;Choong Wan Woo;Jesus Pujol;Joan Deus

  • Brain Corticostriatal Systems and the Major Clinical Symptom Dimensions of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

    Ben J. Harrison;Jesus Pujol;Narcis Cardoner;Joan Deus

  • Cortical thickness across the lifespan: Data from 17,075 healthy individuals aged 3-90 years

    Sophia Frangou;Amirhossein Modabbernia;Steven C. R. Williams;Efstathios Papachristou

  • Modulation of brain resting-state networks by sad mood induction.

    Ben J. Harrison;Jesús Pujol;Héctor Telechea Ortiz;Alex Fornito

  • Regional, circuit and network heterogeneity of brain abnormalities in psychiatric disorders

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  • The Acute Effects of L-theanine in Comparison With Alprazolam on Anticipatory Anxiety in Humans

    Kristy Lu;Marcus A. Gray;Chris Oliver;David T. Liley

  • Virtual Histology of Cortical Thickness and Shared Neurobiology in 6 Psychiatric Disorders

    Yash Patel;Nadine Parker;Jean Shin;Derek Howard

  • Task-induced deactivation of midline cortical regions in schizophrenia assessed with fMRI

    Ben J. Harrison;Murat Yücel;Jesus Pujol;Christos Pantelis

Frequent Co-Authors

Carles Soriano-Mas
Carles Soriano-Mas University of Barcelona
Jesús Pujol
Jesús Pujol Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Narcís Cardoner
Narcís Cardoner Autonomous University of Barcelona
Murat Yücel
Murat Yücel QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Christopher G. Davey
Christopher G. Davey University of Melbourne
José M. Menchón
José M. Menchón University of Barcelona
Alex Fornito
Alex Fornito Monash University
Leonardo F. Fontenelle
Leonardo F. Fontenelle Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
María del Pino Alonso Ortega
María del Pino Alonso Ortega Bellvitge University Hospital
Joan Deus
Joan Deus Autonomous University of Barcelona

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